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Ten Forward Weekly 1/15/2020

somtaawkharsomtaawkhar Member Posts: 10,222 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
From our friends at Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/epc1t6/ten_forward_weekly_15012020_to_hell_with_honor/
  • Theme: "To Hell with Honor" new TFO
  • Guest: content designer John Hegner
  • This time there'll be spoilers for the new TFO.
  • 1st time ever: an official early announcement of a feature, complete with playthrough!
  • "The best TFO we've ever done" - Andre's offscreen opinion of TFO
  • "Any pressure there?" - Mike
  • "It is fun." - John
  • Chain reaction explosions are a big thing in this TFO.
  • We'll be hitting J'Ula's refitting shipyard to take down her fleet while it's still inactive.
  • Shipyard is on the moon surface.
  • There'll be many turrets that we would be able both blast trough or evade.
  • It'll be race against time to destroy ships before they power up and escape.
  • Internal playtests showed several viable strategies.
  • QA team that are flying alongside Mike stated to be using reasonably-equipped characters, not super-optimized ones.
  • We also saw current new logging screen. Volcanic place.
  • Mike isn't sure it's final.
  • New music is being recorded specifically for the TFO.
  • (Oh man, an actual landscape! And it looks great from art perspective.)
  • There are fuel dumps and munition depots that will explode and create AoE explosion.
  • (Was... was that Apocalypse Now reference in TFO NPC coordinator's line?)
  • No atmosphere and low gravity, so no new flight mechanics - at least this time.
  • There were plans for atmosphere interference.
  • All that time J'Ula is flying around in sweep mode.
  • Elachi!
  • Elachi walkers!
  • DuncanIdaho11 (Chat): "Fire tow cables!"
  • What a beautiful explosions those reactors produce! Art team work produced really great result.
  • (Thank you Twitch chat person, but I heard them decently enough.)
  • That TFO is important to story.
  • John, about J'Ula siccing elachi at as: "They're doing non-klingons a favour by introducing them to the glory that is dying with honour."
  • Huge elachi walker! Like, really HUGE.
  • DuncanIdaho11 (Chat): "USE YOUR TOWCABLE"
  • In the end, they decided to not make ground collisions damaging.
  • There'll be no elite or advanced version at launch.
  • There'll be end cutscene that didn't make it into the test.
  • That was a joke. T_T
  • There's TMP era ship in works.
  • Mike forgot that Oberth is TMP era ship. Chat did not.
  • Permanent Phoenix boxes on console are coming with the next big update.
  • No recruitment event with anniversary, but one is still coming.
  • About anniversary ship:
  • Mile: "We will know the answer to that question soon."
  • John: "It is literally a giant birthday cake."
  • There'll be blog post about TFO tomorrow, including video.
  • That's one way how they'll learn that, Mike.
  • Man, that was a gorgeous new map and effects, and mechanics look good enough too.

Video of the TFO. starts at 15:15
https://youtu.be/I32YYYBAuaM?t=915
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Comments

  • sennahcheribsennahcherib Member Posts: 2,823 Arc User
    that seems very interesting :)
    No recruitment event with anniversary, but one is still coming
    oh! very very interesting.
  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
    legendarylycan#5411
         Member Posts: 37,282 Arc User
    recruit events are always welcome, because they not only come with an additional pylon slot, but they also increase the max amount of pylons you can have, and as any expert player knows, YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS​​
    Like special weapons from other Star Trek games? Wondering if they can be replicated in STO even a little bit? Check this out: https://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1262277/a-mostly-comprehensive-guide-to-star-trek-videogame-special-weapons-and-their-sto-equivalents

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  • foppotee#4552 foppotee
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         Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    The footage of that upcoming "To Hell with Honor" looked like it might be loads of fun!

    It was a shame while the 2 gents were discussing the TFO they didn't take the time to notice the game volume was too loud & many viewers were complaining, via chat, that we couldn't here the discussion.

    Otherwise, it was a short but still decent livestream.

  • ichaerus1ichaerus1 Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    edited January 2020
    [(Trolling comments moderated out. - BMR)
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  • psytce0002psytce0002 Member Posts: 157 Arc User
    sennahcherib wrote: »
    that seems very interesting :)
    No recruitment event with anniversary, but one is still coming
    oh! very very interesting.

    It would be nice if they also opened up older recruitments at the same time ....

  • atlantis#9395 atlantis
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         Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    I just hope Temporal Recruitment event comes back this year... It's the only Recruit that I've missed
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,542 Community Moderator
    atlantis#9395 wrote: »
    I just hope Temporal Recruitment event comes back this year... It's the only Recruit that I've missed

    The main reason we haven't seen it is because it is Fed only and they've said they wanted to be more inclusive of other factions.
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    @ambassadorkael#6946 APA is your friend. :)
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Did they mention this in Ten Forward?

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11351123-the-khitomer-alliance-launches-new-joint-service
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